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Immortalized for all the wrong reasons by Penelope Spheeris’ gloriously decadent The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, Pt 2: The Metal Years, Los Angeles heavy metal outfit Odin had, in contrast, enjoyed a surprising amount of respect in previous years, when they were one of the city’s fastest-rising cult acts

Begun as a side project before drummer Jimy Chambers left Mercury Rev, Odiorne featured Chambers switched to vocals and guitar With bassist Mike Bouquard, drummer Brandon Delmont, and keyboardist Kevin Corbett, Odiorne released the Want Them Leaving More EP in 2001 on Everlasting Records and toured Spain with Chambers’ former band

The Odyssey were a somewhat mysterious Los Angeles-based garage band, signed to the White Whale label, who cut a hot little piece of put-down punk gold in 1968 before disappearing

Odyssice (a name rooted in Greek mythology) was formed in 1986 The original members of the group were Bastiaan Peeters (guitar), André Hubbeling (keyboards), and Alan Natele (drums)

Of Cabbages & Kings Biography, Photos, Pictures

Evolved from Chicago/New York band the Bag People and containing members of the Swans and Glenn Branca collaborators, Of Cabbages & Kings was a sporadically seen and short-lived band centered on Carolyn Master and Algis Kizys

Of God and Science Biography, Photos, Pictures

Albuquerque, NM, indie rock band Of God and Science started out as the duo of songwriter Matthew Dominguez and bassist Jeremy Fine, who played open-mike nights while adding and subtracting other players

The brainchild of singer/guitarist Kevin Barnes, euphoric indie popsters Of Montreal were among the second wave of bands to emerge from the sprawling Elephant 6 collective A native of Athens, GA, Barnes was inspired to form the group in the wake of a broken romance with a woman from Montreal; signing to Bar/None while living in Florida, he subsequently moved to Cleveland and Minneapolis in search of compatible bandmates, finally returning home to collaborate with bassist Bryan Helium (also a member of Athens’ Elf Power) and drummer Derek Almstead

Off Broadway Biography, Photos, Pictures

Off Broadway was a late-’70s power pop group from Chicago That put them in a position roughly equivalent to that of Shaquille O’Neal’s backup In this case O’Neal was Cheap Trick and Off Broadway was doomed to obscurity

San Diego’s Off By One jumped the punk revival bandwagon in 2000, aiming to make a place for themselves among the TRL tainted audience dominated by dance-pop Comprised of Marc Gould (vocals), Jon Bishop (guitar), Jordan Brownwood (bass) and Trevor Easter (drums), Off By One was surrounded by music from an early age

Off the Record Biography, Photos, Pictures

California punk rockers in Off the Record mix alternative metal and early modern rock aesthetics for a riveting jam session of music Comprised of vocalist Keith Allen, guitarists Ryan Schueller and Dan Atkinson, bassist Chris Ozorio, and drummer Danny Hildalgo complete Off the Record and the quintet released their debut Remember When on Tooth & Nail in March 2000

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